[CS-FSLUG] calendar and reminder
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Fri May 12 08:25:00 CDT 2006
At 04:10 PM 5/11/06, Ed Hurst wrote:
>Frank Bax wrote:
> > At 08:34 AM 5/11/06, Ed Hurst wrote:
> >
> >>Assume I use neither GNOME nor KDE. What would be a good calendar
> >>application with reminder functions?
> >
> > I don't use any calendar app. I use cron to send myself email reminders in
> > the future or on fixed schedule.
>
>Won't work for me. I tried it. Having ADD means needing something that
>remembers for me, and I may not read system mail for a few days at a time.
cron output doesn't have to be system mail. You can either use
MAILTO=ed
in a user's crontab to send output to any local user; or you can create a
cron entry like:
0 5 1 */3 * echo 'every three months' | mail -s 'oil change due'
ehurst at asisaid.com
to send an email anywhere.
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